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katy

so I'm wise AND I have worms.

About Me

i'm really a grandma.

My Interests

music on headphones and public radio in my car, words that make my lungs feel too full as if they are giving me first breath, films that show life as it is and as it should be, interpreting Jack's barks, baking too often, singing too loudly, 1st graders and kindergarteners who break my heart, making this place better, making myself better, pretty clothes and shiny things, woodland creatures and beautiful views, my family and my friends and the strangers whose stories i haven't heard yet.

I'd like to meet:

people I know or people whom other people in my life already know.

Music:

nickel creek, dolly parton, iron & wine

Movies:

everything is illuminated, amelie, the great muppet caper, the gleaners and I, 9 to 5, dancer in the dark, beauty & the beast, thoroughly modern millie, waiting for guffman, best in show, spellbound, funny face, garden state, eternal sunshine sunshine of the spotless mind, walk the line,mad hot ballroom.

Television:

lost, the office, west wing, project runway, ugly betty, this american life, fresh air, talk of the nation science fridays, all things considered ( a few of those are radio)

Books:

Words of my childhood: Anne of Avonlea series, Chronicles of Narnia, Black Cauldron series, Laura INgalls WIlder's Little House books, the american girl books, everything Beverly Cleary did, and any books involving orphans-- human or otherwiseThe most influential words since then: Cat's Eye, Jane Eyre, Their Eyes were Watching God, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Till We Have Faces, The Grapes of Wrath, The Long Loneliness, The Sound & the Fury, King Lear, Traveling Mercies And important people who didn't write any of the books above: Adrienne Rich, G. K. Chesterton, Flannery O'Connor, Mary Oliver, e. e. cummings, Sharon Olds, Anne Sexton, Wendell Berry, Pablo Neruda, Garrison Keillor, Kahlil Gibran, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Heroes:

my dad, Mr. Rogers, Dorothy Day, Mother Teresa

My Blog

what will you do when the curtain falls

this morning i went to Palm Sunday service with Mr. Seth Arthur Kastner. Small children of tangled hair eager grins carried soft green fronds in softer hands and an Irish pastor blessed me and called...
Posted by katy on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:53:00 PST

you haven’t got my faith so best keep your beliefs

a girl just asked me if i am in her diversity class. i am so rarely mistaken for someone else that I had to think for a moment whether I could actually be in that class. she seemed very certain. I hav...
Posted by katy on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:41:00 PST

rock me mama like a southbound train

I'm awake in gratitude and just this intense love for my animals and my family. I want to be here, but i wish i was there to help my mom as she puts her sister in a nursing home. as my dad is sick fro...
Posted by katy on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:38:00 PST

wristwatch time slowing as she goes to sleep

a note on the Tate's refrigerator: Remember the five simple rules to be happy: 1. Free your heart from hatred.2. Free your mind from worries.3. Live simply.4. Give more.5. Expect less. I need this ...
Posted by katy on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:42:00 PST

curiousity was far greater than our fear

with my massive quantities of free time i've been researching our food system-- learning so much that i haven't been able to eat any animal products fora couple days now. i don't want to be vegan...
Posted by katy on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 05:09:00 PST

smart people like pudding.

I've spent a bit more time looking at places to live...still mostly doubts and questions, but it's exciting to consider.it's about the only thing that keeps me from being 100% depressed here as oppose...
Posted by katy on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 03:54:00 PST

whiskey warm september

i looked at my own profile today and realized just how long it has been since i have stuck anything in here. recently i have gone and come and gone again until i settled here in fort smith at my paren...
Posted by katy on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:32:00 PST

true story.

the month of july will be spent in stillwater. hoorah!
Posted by katy on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:33:00 PST

I'm in stilly!

  my parents are my benefactors ( in exchange for free coffee) and i'm in the stillwater. call me please. number in a previous blog.xoxo.
Posted by katy on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 04:36:00 PST

e is even more

woke up this morning with my car dead. over 100 dollars ( =gas for the trip) later and no oklahoma trip. I am a sad duck and i don't know when I'll be able to work a trip in again. anyway, i'm s...
Posted by katy on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 04:41:00 PST